Improved tag for shoe-strings



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JAMES TWAMLIEY, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No; 104,229, datedJaw/eM, 1870.

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.The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and soaking part of the same.

To all chain it may concern.- N

'Be it known that I, Jmns TWAMLEY, of New York, of New York county, in the State of New York, have inrenteda certain new and useful improvementiu Shoe Tags; and I do hereby declare.

that the following is: a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the' accompanying drawing making part of this application.

, My invention relates to a new method of securing the metallic tag to the cord of sleeve, corset, 011 otherlacing.

Previous to my invention it has beencustomary'to efiect the retention of the metal tag-(or tube) onthe cord by making one or more indentations in the tube,

which would tend to. prevent the said tag or metallic tip from slipping olf of. the cord, or to make-one or more slight perforations in the metal, so that the bur formed'by punching said'holes (as well'as the-indentations) would hold the tube fast onto the cord. Butit has been found in'practice that these methods do not indnceto such a permanent securing of the metallic tube to'the cord as is-desirable, and it is well known that, in common use, a very large proportion, if not a majority, of the metallic tips peel ofi after-a short, use

' of the lacings, especially in-theuse of shoe-lacings;

My invention-has for its object to provide a simple aml economic means for effectually Securing or fastening the metallic tubes or tip on the ends of shoe, corset, and other lacings or cords, and consists in cutting one or more" barbs or spear-shaped points in the metal tube and bending said barb or barbs into the confined end of the cord or lacing in such a nu nner as to gripe the cord, and so thatany strain on the cord which would tend to pull it out of thetube will induce to a greater hold of the barbs on the cord, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, -I will proceed to describe it more fully,-

" and arrangement of the giiping-points or barbs which gripe the cord; and

Figure Sis a longitudinal section through the cord and tag.'- v

In the several figures-' A is the cord or lacing, such ascommonly used, and

B is the metallic tip or tag."

This tube B is made and applied tothe cord in the usual manner, except that, in lieu of having one, or more simple-(round) holes or indentations, it has one 'or more barbs or points, 1, 2, 3, formed in it, as clearly shown, which points are bent inward, asseen at figs. '1 and 3, sons to impinge upon and penetrate partially it the stock or material of the cordA.

It will be seen that when the barbs 1, 2, 3 are bent.

into the cord A, as shown at 3, they not only will gripe and hold the cord in the tube, but that any pull on the cord (in the direction indicated by the arrow at fig. 3) will tend to makcsaid barbs or points bend an, ther in, and buckle or cramp into the cord so as torender the extrication of the latter wholly impossible. It will be understood that the barbs or points 1,2, 3 can be cut and struck in by the same mode of operation, and with the same facility, as that with which the manufacture of shoe-tags, as now inadie, is .con-

ducted, audit will also he understood that the number, size, and arrangement of the barbs may be varied at pleasure, without departing from the spirit of my.

invention. In lieu of haring'the barbs all in line, as

shown, they may be distributed around thes'urface of the tube A. a

Having described my can make and use it,

lVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lettcrs Patent, is p A shoe-tag, or tip, provided with one or more barbed securing-points, substantially in the manner and for the pupose set forth. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set mv hand and seal, this 5th day of April, 1870.

JAMES TWAMLEY, a 5.]:

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E. S. M. CULLY.

invention so that those skilled 

